[RESOLVED] What's the oldest utility/program you still regularly use?

[Ruslan]

Originally posted by RAELINHO:
volkov commander (NC clone)
it kickasses
can´t live without

WoW! How I could forget about that DOS shell - probably smallest (about 60Kb) brother of Norton Commander!

[furlong47]

Any and all DOS commands have saved my butt numerous times. Or, as my roomate puts it, "That ugly black screen with the words on it."

[Antimatter]

The one that gets the most use is Fastlynx. Fastlynx is the best utility for copying files over parallel cable between PCs. It's especially good if there's no CDROM drive in the machine being worked on. We use it all the time for copying drivers to big for floppy and virus definitions. What's more it works in most OS's.

[Sowulo]

My brain v.2F(hex)

[Snommis69]

PING, by far. When in doubt, PING!

Other than that, I still like WordPerfect 6.1.....Yeah, I know, get off me!

[jeffbrown]

Does SOL.EXE count????

[EvilKlown]

Originally posted by rdbatch:
Windows-ME DOS

I believe I found a link to this page here on Windrivers not sure what forum though. I have not tested this yet, but it says you can still have access to dos under Win ME

I believe you can also type "command" from the run command and that will bring up a DOS window as well.... I am on vacation and don't have a WinME box to verify... but I believe it is so.

[Ghost God]

hmm, I still use Ghost a lot. Of course I use the most recent version, but it started a long time ago. (Hence name, I use it every single day)

I don't use Fdisk, instead I use Gdisk that comes with Ghost. Far...make that REALLY FAR...superior program.

Does VI count?

[format c:]

I use fdisk and format c:/u , I think my favorite dos cammand is format c:/u , fixes Windows problems fast

[KamicarZ]

mscdex, attrib, edit, copy con, fdisk and format. Deltree is also a goody.

[antonye]

DOS components don't count!!

Ghost is definitely one that gets used a lot round here, along with WinZip and Norton AntiVirus if you want to count those.

I still do all my HTML/ASP/PHP editing in Notepad, although I've moved on to EditPad now as that's got line numbers - sort of like Edit for Windows

[Schui]

I have a copy of Laplink 5 for dos. It's great for copying chunk of data from pc to pc. I even use it when moving data from drive to drive (in the same machine)
Also, the laplink editor is a god send sometimes.. especialy when i forget to copy edit.com before I trash a pc.

[B.B.Wolf]

Other than MS- Dos commands, The oldest utilities I still use are Norton Disk Doctor (from version 8) and Laplink 3.

[Draggar]

Sure, all the oldies, FDisk, Dir, CD/MD/RD, attrib, etc...

But I stil use Norton Commander. Its a good file management utility. Easier to use than windows!

And, I also have a ton of old DOS based games (Space Quest 4, Escape form Hell, etc...) Those are from the day games were fun!

[Draggar]

Originally posted by Jubii:
I've got a buddy who still uses Norton Commander in dos. He claims that it's still as much of a useful program as it was the day he first got it. Oh, by the way... is there any dos left in WinME? Sooner or later it will be a thing of the past...

Making a DOS-boot disk is easy with WinME. Have it make a recsue disk, then get rid of all the extra stuff (autoexec.bat, config.sys etc..) just leave the msdos.sys, io.sys, and command.com.
There ya go!